Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Well, they say that this movie is for idiots, but I liked it! It is not just a movie – it is good clean slapstick comedy. One should not try to over-analyze it; that would be contraindicated. This film is a prescription to relax. This is how the movie goes down: they took a Korean (looks like a Korean) and a Hindu who are both potheads and true connoisseurs of the American hamburger (isn’t that a joke?). But each of them has a head on his shoulders. They aren’t punks who can’t even string two words together.
They are a new generation of punk. They are advanced punks. One is a super-mega brainiac in medicine (I busted a rib!), and the other one constantly fusses with his notebook doing his super-mega confusing job. Yet, they don’t forget to think about grass, girls and hamburgers (that only happens in movies, not!). Hamburgers are their ultimate destination. Generally, in combining things that don’t go together, this movie is innovative and even has good taste… but not without the help of the super-mega imaginations of the script writers.
Awake
Awake The Movie
Every year more than 21 million people go through a surgery under general anesthesia. Thirty thousand of them do not fall asleep and remain awake, or speaking scientifically, in the state of internarcosis. They cannot say anything or move any body part. However, they can hear, feel and understand everything.
It seems that the protagonist - Clayton Beresford - has all one may wish for. A beautiful fiance, whose real self he does not really know, a family business. He has “a weak heart, yet a strong mind.” And he does not feel bad about himself (thanks to Hayden Christensen). He would live calmly as if he had no heart problems disturbing him at the most inappropriate moments. He just started making plans to marry as they inform him that a suitable heart had been found for him.
The name of the film in the Russian language speaks for itself (although it puzzles me as how they managed to translate the word “awake” as “anesthesia”). Ignoring his mother’s requests to have the best doctor “replace” his heart, he gives himself to the mercy of the scalpel taken by his “friend.” And here the most interesting part starts.
He feels everything, he recognizes everything, and he feels each touch of the edge or something else. He also hears everything … Things he hears are most interesting. It is now left for him not only to awake (the original title of the film) but to awake from that illusion that had been around him, to realise all the lies and to pay attention to the smallest details. A friend will turn out to be a betrayer, and love will turn out to be an empty sound, a sound which he will never hear surrounded by the walls of “a small house at the beach.”
What should a person do in order to pay off his dues? How many people can be betrayed, flinging from one angle to the other in pursuit of their interests? And how does it make you feel, lying on an operating table, to know that you are doomed to death, and that you spent a year of your life with a person who, through a sham marriage, tried to receive a hundred millions from you?
How can you think all of this through, extracting every little detail from the memory and remaining somewhere between life and death? How is it - to die and come back to life? He was lost at 6:32 six o’clock and rescued two and a half hours later.
It is impossible to describe the feelings after watching the film: There aren’t any of them except for chaotic thoughts. You are simply thinking. You are thinking a lot. You feel you want to tell something to someone, but you do not know what. Everybody left the cinema in full silence, and then, looking at someone’s thoughtful face queried, you could guess: This person just saw “Anesthesia.” And no confirmation was required because it was all clear.
Names on the poster were quite famous - Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, and Terrence Howard. Director Joby Harold is not very well known, but the film was fantastic. I feel like giving a credit to absolutely everyone and would give an overall “A” to all. The only one I would distinguish though, is Jessica Alba, as I don’t remember any film where she would not play a 100% positive character. Of course, a little bit unbalanced and sometimes shouting Jessica looked rather exotic and not so plausible. But if we forget what we know about her, we can say that she remarkably coped with the new role.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The inimitable Tim Burton is good at any expression. However, I enjoy him as a “puppet-maker” especially. As it seemed to me, Mr. Burton turned “Sweeney Todd” into a certain theatrical performance from Fleet Street, and it cannot but gratify.
Sweeney Todd ~ Barber and his Wife (No Place Like London)
Perhaps, in his Golden Globe Award movie, Burton began slightly resembling a B movie, though in a very special way. He is not banal, trivial or freaky - even in ketchup-like blood there is a peculiar beauty. Well, this is the first time in my life with a smile I heard about human meat pies. And what about the scene in a striped tricot under the tree? So? Well, indeed, Adam and Eve succeeded! Really, a caricature and phantasmagorical production does not look inadequate or foolish.
In “Sweeney Todd” Tim Burton tested a little more than usual: more tears, more songs, more cruelty, more concentration and more irony. In my opinion, Burton, Carter and Depp have never allowed themselves such a straightforward causticity towards the outworld. «We’ve all deserved death!’ What does it mean?! Sure, the phrase has a gross irony at our universe and our vain life we so cherish and care. However, as well as in other Tim Burton’s films, there is a subtle and pearly wisdom that is very evident, but, yet, it is invisible with a common view. In order to distort the truth and at the same time to serve it up so frankly and honestly, a tremendous skill is required that is peculiar only to the great and “awesome” Burton.
Eventually, “Sweeney Todd” finished a “pie fitting” out of pulverized viewers that had been begun in the previous works of this world genius of Tim Burton. It turned out a full human meat pie, which would be thoroughly baked up and packed (but Tim would do it all after releasing «Frankenweenie» and «Alice in Wonderland»). I am certain, whatever happens in the future after the consolidated creative product of Burton, Carter and Depp, no one will remain indifferent. Everyone was convinced again of the masterly force of this alliance and its head - the man with a funny hairstyle, creatively working in the company of his best friend and darling wife. Their each other’s understanding finds its definitive expression on the screen. The actions, movements, looks and intonations fully agree with the light, camera, environment, performance, music and sound recording. Something is achieved only when the teacher understands his student, and the director - his actor. In this case something amazing was achieved. After all, “Sweeney Todd” could be interpreted in a totally different way - as a drama, thriller or something trite and worn out. But no way! Burton would not have been a master of a “funny” horror if he had not told Benjamin Barker’s story in his way, namely, making the viewer сhuckle while in front of him a liter of orange blood is spewed forth. But the most suspicious and unnatural in such reaction is that there is nothing terrible in it. This is Burton. Tim Burton. And the viewer’s reaction from its works can be the most unexpected.
«Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is a completely director’s film. A unique and unconvantional director’s nature can be seen much bolder than anything else despite an unequalled acting of ephemeral Johnny Depp, beautiful Helena Bonham Carter, and venerable Alan Rickman. Each actor is worthy of the same admired response and even more, in which their acting, musical and creative talents would be highly extolled. But I feel that Benjamin Barker’s story 2008 is a director’s benefit performance. Burton is great and magnificent in it! It is his, completely his film, in which he has tested a little bit more.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Chronicles of a Ninny
Battle-scenes are cool and make the movie worth seeing, however, Peter Jackson’s style trees take us back to “The Lords of the Rings”. Should the trees have been included in the scenes at all? Would it be possible to make the movie without them, otherwise, it looks like a lack of imaginativeness, really…
The plot – a detailed copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet – is also second-rate.
Actors seem not to fill their parts with great success as well: their acting is artificial and false. Meanwhile, freaks standing out through the whole movie look far better against them. However, we face plagiarism here again as the freaks resemble most of famous monsters; even the mouse reminds of the cat from “Shreik”.
It’s hard to understand why the movies like that are made. Bearing nothing new, bogged down in clich?s and platitude, they only make us think of the fool who could concoct it all. Were “golden compasses” not enough for us that they released another mediocrity?
A smart dude Clive Lewis didn’t want to film his novel, which, by the way, is a 7-volume one, and the author himself didn’t consider it his best work. But the bad fairy of the director Andrew Adamson had shot bolt, and here you go – one more “masterpiece” of non-science fiction.
Have a nice viewing!
Iron Man
Tony Stark entered the world of comic books back in 1963 as one of the characters of Tales of Suspense Series. He quickly gained popularity, got his own series, which is still in publication today, and became one of the key characters of the entire Marvel Universe. So how you not make a movie based on such a successful comic?
I like Stark compared to other Marvel heroes because he is neither a mutant like the milksop spider, nor one of the small group of mutant losers from the X People. He became a superhero and created a super armor for himself, - all thanks to his genius and intelligence.
Obadiah Stein is playing the enemy in film. He is a colleague of Stark who wants to dismiss him from the position as the company president. The enemy, of course, is not the best. I never even imagined Stark without Mandarin. They are as inseparable as Halk and General Ross. Maybe the creators were afraid that those who are unaware of the situation would not understand all the toughness of this colourful bastard and would think he is not funny. By the way, ten rings were mentioned in the film, but not a word was said about Mandarin. Nevertheless, Bridges made Obadiah quite colourful. At first, he seemed like a positive character, and later we learnt the whole truth about him: Stein is greedy and insidious.
Downy is simply a genius playing Stark. He perfectly fits the image of an eccentric billionaire, a great scientist and simply a ladies’ man. His character is very relaxed in film, not as in comics. But this can even amount to an advantage. I also have to mention his magnificent humour.
Gwyneth is beautiful as always and acts well.
I was pleased with Terrence Howard’s performance as Roads, a “correct” military man and at the same time Tony’s best friend. It was fun to watch the scene when there was armour near him, but he said: “Not now, guys.” It would be nice to see him wearing a suit. I hope that this will happen in a sequel, which I’m sure will be released, as the issue of Stark’s alcoholism was omitted from the movie.
Special effects were on the rise! 186 million were not spent in vain–no doubt about it. Although there were not so many action scenes, all of them were produced on the highest level: Beginning from the explosion of Jericho in Afghanistan and ending with the final battle of the Iron Man and Obadiah in Iron Mongere.
The armour design deserves a separate mention. Mark 1 a/k/a Tin Can looks enough comical, but the most important thing is that the creators made him precisely the same (almost) as he was in the comics. Mark 2, athough we did not get to see much of him, is less similar to the comical version. He does not look golden, but is still cool enough. Mark 3 certainly did them all! Granov and Sanders did a fine work on his design since the golden-red colour of the armour, as it was in comics was not good to see. Yes, it was replaced with yellow-red. When in use, it looks indescribably super and stylish.
Iron Man Trailer
We were promised Samuel L. Jackson as a cameo, playing Nick Fury. This immediately confused me because they were going to show the classical version of the Universe, but Fury was always white there. Although Jackson is cooler–who would argue? However, all of that is now irrelevant since he did not appear in movie anyway… But then, there was Stan Lee’s cameo in the film like in other Marvel films. The cameo was amusing as usual.
It is necessary to give a special credit to the ending. I think it will please all.
As a result, years of expectations were not for nothing. A quality summer blockbuster was released, and it was the best Marvel comics filming for me.
Nice deal for movie lovers!
I Found It, and participated today. May be I’ll be lucky =)
Beetle Juice - Day O
You don’t believe but my first look on “BeetleJuice” by Tim Burton was yesterday!
I heard about it, but can’t find. This is a great work of Tim Burton and his friend Michael Keaton. And next film by Tim Burton was BATMAN with Michael Keaton =)
Look my favorite scene below:
you can download full film here
Nice gadget
There are nice lens about New Motorola Multimedia Phone Razr 2
Cool phone, I’ll purchase it in august.
Transformers
For transformers I picked out whole page. Transformers History.
Harry Potter
Here are good deal for Harry Potter movie, found it recently, enjoy if you want.